72. Designing with Lynn Fisher

Charlie Gleason, a designer and developer at Heroku, is joined by Lynn Fisher, a designer, CSS developer, and a software and design consultancy at &yet. Lynn went to school for Fine Arts, majoring in inter-media art. She found her unique perspective on art and design gave her a leg up in working with HTML and CSS projects in the mid-2000s, and from there, moved into working in frontend development.

Her personal work has explored the creative possibilities of web design. A Single Div shows the incredible possibilities when drawing with a single div and CSS. The Food Place (from The Good Place), Top Chef Stats, and Dress David Rose (from Schitt's Creek) explore pop cultures through through minimal illustrations, and emphasize the flexibility of pure web development. US Flags [dot] Design is an exhaustive design guide to the flags of the United States, while Airport Codes demystifies the IATA three-letter airport code. Their discussion probes these projects, and how Lynn balances her work responsibilities with her creative (and time-consuming) artwork.

Links from this episode

• A Single Div, a compilation of CSS drawing experiments
• Dress David Rose, which features illustrations of every shirt, sweater, and jacket David Rose wears on Schitt's Creek
• Lynn's portfolio refreshes, since 2007
• The Food Place, which includes all the food, drink, and restaurants you remember from the television show “The Good Place”
• Airport Codes, which helps you to make sense of those three-letter airport codes
• US Flags [dot] Design, a design guide for the flags of the United States
• WhyAZ, a microsite of reasons it's awesome to live and work in Arizona
• Top Chef Stats, an exhaustive compilation of stats and facts across many seasons of Top Chef
• Hollywood Age Gap, which shows the age difference in years between movie love interests.
• Jen Simmons and Rachel Andrew provide guidance on using CSS Grid
• Heroku Hanafuda cards collaboration, and the award in Japan